Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-09-24

No information of consequence was cleaned from the witness regarding the hooks or contracts Witness thOughs merely that the question ct issue could he settled beet by q conference between
 a committee from the board of directors and the Commission.
 Mir. Littler asked what wss ibe
 ability of the company tO pay the U, D.
 debt to .he government to-day, and re-
 ceived none, whatever ss the mphanc
 answer,
 M. Crocker sold the company intended
 to pay some day but to do l. at present would ruin the property. Il would sug-
 gest" remarked Mr. CrOCker. "tass the government. Co which money is just no" no object, give the road one huEdrcdi or
 one hundred and fifty years in which to
 pay it's debt, The latter" hs said, ri | the government had given the control ot | Central Pacific promIsed to our company would have nearly paid its dect by this time. Politics." insisted tho witness,
 Rre at the root of all this trouble. and
 when the road IS out of politics 1t Sill
 prosper
 | In reply to another question witness
 said: "There was never penny 1T stock, bonds, or money offered to any legisla-
 lure fo secure corrupt influence. The government had saved some Sl37O0OOO | by the road and 1t wOuld not give enough patronage to enable it 10 pay It's
 dsbt, which could ensily have have
 done"
 WoRcEsTER. September 20.-All the
 candidates except governor were agreed upon oy the convention and unauimous- ! ly enc crsed, and are as follows: | FOs lieutensat governor, Waller E.. | CuttIDg, of PIttsfield; secretary of state John r. Murphy, of Lowell; treasurer; Henry C. Thatcher, Of Yarmouth: astor- ney general. JohI W. c FcorsD. Of CliR-
 ton, auditor, William Cook, of Spring
 field
 WAsHINGToS, September 20.-A pen
 sIon has been granted to the widow of
 Jefferson Hunt, of San Be=nardino couu-
 ty. Cal.
 Los ANGELES, September 20.-Tbere
 is a movement on foo: to build a dry
 Jock at San Pedro. A number of San | Francisco capitalists have formed a com
 pany 10 pusa the scheme. The dCcz IS
 to be twelve hundred feet long and .O
 cost S}OO, 900 4 lne of first class tugs
 will wlll also be established and ware
 houses and wharves built.
 SAN FRANCIsCO, EeotemDer 2O.-Act- ing GU Information given by Consul Bee Co United States Attorney Carey to- day, Judge Holman r,manded to tue custody of the marshall shrteeU Chinese
 women who had landed from tbe China
 steamship Belgic. on wIits of haDeEs corpus and hSd been released on bonds. COrsul Bee sad be had discovered that
 she bonds were worthless and asserted
 that syndicate exi-ts in Chinatown formed with tho apparent lnteutIOn of facilItaling the importation 0t human ehsttels by supplying bOnfsmen when ever required. He said this company
 has seceived some Btttntion from the consulate and measures will be taken to
 break 1t forthwith.
 Sr. JOINS. September 20.-The sUii of Arthur Mcdonald against ths Atlantic .S Pacific railroad for S2jOJO for false Imprisonment was cE!lei before Judge Wright to- day. Mcdonald wus arrested 10 January, lSSJ. for stealing COW from the railroad company a. HD!Orook, bul there being no evidence against him he was discharged. His son. Dan Mc- Donald, plead guilty. however. in the FNs sentence was deferred by Chief Justice Howard, then presiding. Judge Wright today ordered the case to bJ removed to Prescott to come up before the No vember term of the federal court.
 Los AxGKLEs, September 20-Thou- sands of persons Rssembled at tls Santa Fe depot to give ths C. A E veterans and friends a hearty E8icr. Th train for Si. Louis WAS run in three sections of five, seven and eight cars and nearly J1O persons left hdmiGst ohe=rs ofiricuds | on tho plstform.
 ST JOHNS. Ariz., September 2O.-The | trial Oi Juan Garlic for tha murder of a I hsli-breed Navajo Indian, witnessed by | D. Ba-a, then courty treasurer. on | Christrias dey ot 1881, came up before | Judge Wright. Tire murder was com mittei with Rn axe and .he murderer was at large until Jnly Cf this year, when hs was Hrreseted within co miles | Of SDrinServi!le ia this county. lie vGs sentenced to ten yesrs ID the peEitsn- tisry.
 LONDON, September 20.-A Standard correspondent at Shanghsi says that the Ams ricsn and Chinese bank syndicate have accepted Li Hung Chang's c0ndi- ton and Rn Anericsn officIal will de- part for China immediately to complete A bank will probably be started ID Shanghai end Tin Taing, and branches will be opened in Philadelphia and London sometime in ths spring.
 FoRI WoRTH, Tex. September 2l.-l Two masked men with drawn revOlvers mounted the csb If the Texes X Pacific e8s. bound train last night. ss it pulled out of Bsnbrook, small station Q few miles west of here. The engineer was ordered to run tbe train a few miles from BenbroOk where it wes stopped just over high iFcstie; bere two other masked men boarded the train aud The fireman and engineer were placed under guard. A dozen shots were fred into the express car and th5 door vas fnaily opened by Express Messenger MalOuey One of the robbers entered aud cleaned ont the safe and then went into the mall car, the messenger offering DO re sisiGnc9. Every registered letter was secured by tae robbers. The work vas done ln te1 ulurtes and the encinPer WAS ordered tO pull uui. The trsiu wRs a tnr1GZh express from San Francisco. The booty ;akeu w.s valued a. thirty thousand dollhFs
 CHICAGo, September PA c.rcular of ieep red sEarctis,Ic taudcuc:es, i~ being ,ircuiaied m Cluc4su r. i4 hsaied 1 'fn the Workir, men oF tae United States of North iIoCTG~a.' gnd Geuounc- cg the action O' tue SUUrJ uia Ccust in | lghc'dins tue 9ccis inn of tle lower , 'o'-', ID ths aCsTchistic csSee. l. refers , 'o 'lgt Boutieii ss a ''notori5us police V lqndi;,' and vii flies Judge Gary with. 7 ut stint. The cIrcalar is signed. Fed. ', sraiIon of Trades Union" and was printed in New York. Police CsD.. ! )'DoDuei ieiephonei this afternoon all